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Yes, and given the current administration’s pardon practice, being shamelessly unrepentant and flagrantly likely to be a recidivist looks more like a positive than a negative consideration.
A thought just came to me, that the selling of indulgences triggered the Reformation.
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Yea I now see that, but what ever happened to the word “boyfriend”? It does the job and doesn’t sound like something out of 19th century literature or “clandestine” as a sibling commenter is saying. I see the same thing happening in Spanish - no one can say “novio/a” anymore. Why?
Strange. I don't think "lover" sounds illicit in any way, though maybe it suggests youth and romanticism.
Awful title; this is her husband, not her "lover."
1: they were never married 2: why is lover so bad? I see the hate in this discussion for the phrase, but I don't get it. Is it some modern thing where we're supposed to separate the concept of marriage from sex due to asexual types or some such? legitimate question : I don't get it. I'm more than willing to avoid the use of lover, but someone at least explain it to me. would more casual concepts like 'defacto' or 'co…
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I’m guessing it was trying to distinguish between him and her previous business partners?
Well, her previous business partner & lover was a co-conspirator iirc (the CFO).
In light of all these facts, I, for one, would say that "partner" is an impoverished term to use in this headline, because what really does that signify? A business partner? Come on. There are obstacles here to clarity of terminology, due to the dubious nature of her legal marriage and such. But this is a woman who seems to have leveraged her sexuality to every advantage, as well as being taken advantage of in return. Not a good scene!
If she eventually gets this right and revolutionizes blood-testing, the legend will live forever! Big "if", I know...
If its possible to keep creating and rug pulling new shitcoins, then it seems obvious that the same can be done with medical start-ups. What a weird world we are living in.
https://www.biography.com/crime/a63917214/billy-mcfarland-no...
Rather than focusing on Holmes and her lover, I'd like to posit some other questions I have with this approach. Let's assume for just a minute that Holmes wasn't trying to rug pull and that she genuinely wanted Theranos to succeed in it's stated mission. Wouldn't a foundational invention like this 20-30 years ago come out of a university lab? It feels like VC funding is not the right vehicle for the kind of developme…
That was implication of the original con. She was this superstar Stanford undergrad who’d discovered something so radically important she had to drop out of school for the sake of humanity.
OP here. I edited the title from Partner to Lover to distinguish between business and romantic partners but I just found out "Lover" carries an incendiary connotation in American English as opposed to British English. Not my intention at all....
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Matt Levine (financial columnist) often makes the point (or joke) that in fund management there a tendency to reward (as in: they get more money to manage) people who lost a lot of money, on the basis that they did manage to have a lot of money to start with, make bold bets, and should at least have learned something at this point.
That is not unique to fund managers. Second time entrepreneurs are more likely to raise capital even if their first venture failed and spectacularly so. Adam Neumann got funded by a16z(their largest?) despite all the governance issues at Wework , there are many other examples of high profile and regular entrepreneurs getting funding .
Tangent but why does the title here says lover while the article says partner; no fan of Holmes, based on that, a probably (unfair?) low opinion of this guy, but come on.